A study published in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology shows that increasing the amount of time spent on terminal cleaning of patient rooms may not have a significant effect on ...

4. The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston offers a sample environmental and OR cleaning checklist for patient rooms found to have housed a patient with an emerging infectious disease. 5.

Adding ultraviolet-C light disinfection to standard terminal room disinfection practices can reduce transmission drug-resistant organisms by a cumulative 30 percent, according to a study led by ...

The checklist has the user identify whether high-touch room surfaces, those sites most frequently contaminated and touched by patients and/or healthcare workers, have been cleaned, not cleaned or are ...

The effect of terminal cleaning on environmental contamination rates of multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii. American Journal of Infection Control, 2012; 40 (10): 1005 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajic ...

When we reached out to the hospital, they said in some cases nursing personnel will be allowed in the same room as COVID-19 patients to help clean now that the hospital has more PPE. A ...